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466 FORTY—SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 166, 167. 1873. Rggister arid Sec. 2. That the President shall appoint, by and with the advice and

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:;“'°:em consent of the Senate or in the recess of the Senate, a register and a

and p,,y_’P° ’ receiver of public moneys for aid district; and said officers shall reside in the place where said land office is located; and they shall have the same powers, perform the same duties, and receive the same emoluments as are, or may be prescribed by law in relation to land offices of the United States in other Territories. APPROVED, February 18, 1873. F€b· 19, 1873· CHAP. CLXVI. —-An Act to provide for obtaining Information of the Condition of Bank; _1____"` organized under State Laws. Bc it enacted by the Smale and House of Representatives of the United Comptroller of States of America, in Oongress assembled, That it shall be the duty of the

  • h“ °“"°"°Y *0 comptroller of the currency to report annually to Convrress, under approreportannuallytc . . . . . . . . *’ . .

Congressthe cou, prlate heads, the resources and liabilities, €Xll1b1D1Ylg the c0nd1tion of the diticm of State banks, banking companies, and savings-banks organized under the laws of b““k’· &°‘? the several States and Territories, such information to be obtained by the comptroller from the reports made by such banks, banking companies, and savings-banks to the legislatures or officers of the different States and Territories. And where such reports cannot be obtained, the deficiency shall be supplied from such other authentic sources as may be available. may employ Sec. 2. That, in order to carry the provisions of the first section of

  • ¤ “‘*§lm°¤¤l this act into effect, the comptroller of the currency is hereby authorized,

°l°ikif°e°°ssm-y' if it should be necessary, to employ one clerk of class four, who shall be appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury in the manner now provided b law. yAPr1c0vm», February 19, 1873. Feb. 19, 1873- CHAP. CLXVII. ——— An Act to provide;/blrkthe Sale of certain New York Indian Lands In IITISGS. Bc it enacted by the Senate and Abuse of Representatives of the United Certain settlers States of America, in Congress assembled, That those persons being heads “g3;‘s“g}°:é’§;‘;l; of families or single persons over twenty-one years of age who have made ggw york [ndmn settlement and improvement upon, and are bona-fide claimants of; and !¤¤d¤i¤ K¤¤S¤¤ occupants of; either in person or by tenants, the lands in Kansas which $°;Q’“"°h°5° were allotted to certain New York Indians, and for which certificates of allotment, dated the fourteenth day of September, eighteen hundred and sixty, for three hundred and twenty acres of land each were issued to thirty-two of said Indians, shall be, and hereby are, authorized and permitted to enter and purchase at the proper land—ofIice said lands so occupied by them, in tracts not exceeding one hundred and sixty acres, according to the government surveys, on paying therefor in lawful money Value, how of the United States the appraised value of said tracts respectively, to be ”°°’*““‘°d ascertained by three disinterested and competent appraisers, to be appointed by the Secretary of the Interior, who shall examine in person each tract and report under oath its value, exclusive of improvements; and patents Patents- shall issue to them therefor as in other cases, but no sale shall be made under this act for less than three dollars and seventy-five cents per acre; and the Secretary of the Interior shall prescribe such regulations as may be necessary to carry this act into effect according to the intent thereof} Fntriqs to be and such entries shall be made within two years from the time such regu—

¥;°;§_w*th1"tw° lations shall be promulgated, and the moneys that shall arise from such

` Purchase- sales shall be paid into the treasury of the United States, in trust for, and

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  • );’$hi;°ld to be paid to, said Indians respectively, to whom said certihcates were

kdm],,, &c_ issued, or to their heirs, upon satisfactory proof of their identity to the Secretary of the Interior, at anytime within five years from the passage of this act; and in case such proof is not made within the time specified, then the proceeds of such sales, or so much thereof as shall not have been paid under the provisions of this act, shall become a part of the public